[Setup] Re: completely locked out

Martin Aspeli optilude at gmx.net
Thu Mar 27 08:46:35 UTC 2008


Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:58 +0000, Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the reply Stefan, but I'd already tried that.  It doesn't
>>> work because cookies are somehow disabled and I cannot reach a login
>>> portal in Plone or any kind of login prompt in the ZMI.  
>> Are cookies enabled in your browser? Perhaps the automated tool turned 
>> them off?
>>
>> Martin
>>
> Yes.  They are enabled.  The message I get from the plone site, where
> the login portlet should appear but does not, is that because cookies
> are disbled the login portlet will not work.  
> 
> I think everyone who has answered this is misunderstanding the problem.
> Maybe it's because of the way I explained it.  
> 
> I'm not even being given a chance to login.  I don't see how whether I
> have cookies enabled or disabled in my browser could cause that.  If I
> had cookies disabled in my browser I would get an error message telling
> me I need to enable cookies after I entered my username and password.  I
> can't enter my user name and password as the login portal does not exist
> on the Plone site.

Aha. What about the "login" link in the blue bar at the top? What if you 
append /login to the end of your site URL?

> When accessing the ZMI from the Zope Quick Start page no login form pops
> up when clicking on the Zope Management Interface link and results in an
> error saying that a resource is not available.  The resource that is
> does not exist is according to the error message is 
> http://localhost:8081/acl_users/credentials_cookie_auth/login_form, i.e.
> where you enter the administrator's user name and password.  It simply
> doesn't pop up to give me a chance to enter the ZMI.  That cannot be
> browser related.  

Do you have backups?

Martin

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